User blog comment:KanameTousen/Nelo Angelo/@comment-4720688-20120403232233

We never saw a body did we? He just poofed. I'm probably just being hopelessly optimistic as suits my Vergil-fangirl status, but as I've learned from Law & Order, "No body, no convitction."

Isn't it possible he didn't die but instead just teleport away, somehow breaking free of Mundus's control?